putting my whiskers back on

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This past weekend, I shaved off a two week old goatee and it turns out that was much to the chagrin of my daughter. The next morning she was cuddling with me, grabbed my chin, did a double take, gave me a very serious stare, and said, “Daddy, where’s your whiskers?”
“I took them off sweetheart.”
“Put them back on.”

Ergo, I’m growing a beard at least until next Thursday when Dana and the kids head down to Atlanta. This trip down there will be very hard on me. The first time I’ll be with out my short people for a long time since the separation. I have to schedule myself busy, because when I go too long without seeing them, especially since the separation – I get so down.

Viv slept over last night, Bubba had a cold and keeping the kiddos apart will hopefully prevent my short girl from getting his cold. Viv is now REALLY into playing hide and seek and having a catch. We read some stories after playing and then she went to sleep (after a few princess stories and several thousand stanzas of You Are My Sunshine and Qué Será, Será).

I got some work done on the Flash conversion of the Kuma redesign. Which
I’ve come to a conclusion, Flash 8 on a Mac sucks ass. Supposedly to be addressed in Blaze (Flash 8.5). It’s horrible, from what I’ve read Adobe (Macromedia) isn’t investing time in making their Mac IDE usable, which blows. The project I’m working on has Mac fonts and after doing some reading about conversion to PC fonts, I’ve found that the designer wasn’t using True Type or Type 1 fonts, ergo I can’t convert them. So I need to find font substitutes and do this all on my PC.

9 Responses to “putting my whiskers back on”

  1.  mamatulip Says:

    “Put them back on.”

    That’s awesome.

    Now would be a good time to whine about how much I want a Mac, wouldn’t it?

  2.  Van Says:

    Flash is my only complaint right now honestly, I dig my iMac with a tenacity unforeseen by mankind.

  3.  apertome Says:

    That sucks about Flash. One thing I’ve always hated about Flash is that it’s supposed to be cross-platform, but that’s never been the case to the extent they’d like you to believe. That is even true of the browser plug-in, so I’m not surprised that the IDE is no better.

    It sounds like you’re getting to spend some great time with the kids … awesome. It sucks you’ll be away from them, but you should do some music during that time!

  4.  Hilly Says:

    That is too funny about the whiskers….I love it when kids are so innocently blunt :) .

  5.  bupsmom Says:

    heh.. put them back on
    teehee
    good suggestion from the peanut gallery

    busy is good
    getting out is good
    creating is good
    its hard when they are away

  6.  furiousBall Says:

    apertome, yeah, my plan is to hopefully ebay the omnistudio and look into that m-audio firewire 410 (on ebay as well) then I should be able to rock out with my cock out…erm, i’ll record some music.

  7.  tori Says:

    Kids are awesome! I love it when they say exactly what they are thinking!

  8.  furiousBall Says:

    yeah Viv liked to hold my whiskery chin while she lays in my lap and watches TV. she’s very zen and tactile.

  9.  Bud Buckley Says:

    Kids are usually very strident about their favorite adults changing things like hair and whiskers. My closest school kids ever told me in no uncertain terms that I was not to shave my beard. Ever. Since I’ve been retired, I cut down to a goatee, sent them pictures and not one of them even mentioned it. WTF? Neither did my own children who are adults. I think I’d have to get a facial tattoo before they’d say anything.

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